The publication of this book marks the fulfilment of a promise made over 60 years ago in the summer of 1944, when a young RAF officer told his WAAF fiancée that one day he would write the story of their romance.

Sadly, he never had the chance to do so. On the night of 26/27 November 1944, Mosquito DK292 of 192 Squadron, in which he was navigator, failed to return from a mission to Munich. No trace of Vic or his pilot Jack Fisher was ever found...

Nina and Vic were to have been married the following week.

Nina was devastated but determined to put the heartbreak of war behind her and eventually found a new love, was married and raised a family - but for 50 years her unworn wartime wedding dress remained at the back of her wardrobe, along with hundreds of letters, still in their original envelopes, her diaries, a rusty nail from the church gate where she and Vic had become engaged, old photographs and a pair of his silk flying gloves - a testimony to the love they shared and lost.

In the early 1990s Nina's daughter Janine began to work with her mother on a book to fulfil Vic's promise. Together they joined the RAF 100 Group Association, based in Norfolk, which enabled them to talk to Vic's former friends and colleagues and begin to trace his final, fateful journey.

The result is this book, told mostly in Nina and Vic's own words via their letters, but supported by diary entries, telegrams, photographs and other wartime memorabilia - together they tell a fascinating and moving story.